Arnold's Life

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time is about a boy is living on an Indian Reservation in Washington state. This boy's name is Arnold Spirit or Junior. He and his family are fighting poverty, education deprivation, and a hopeless future for their son. It seems that Arnold does not have a chance to break this vicious cycle. His helplessness is not helping make his life change. He is staying in an unwanted cycle of poverty. Until one of his teachers makes him realize that he does have a future. He just needs to make it happen. There for Arnold changes his current state by going into a new world and opening up new opportunities for his future. Throughout Arnold's life, He and his family have been struggling with money. His dad is an alcoholic and spends all the money on drinks and not on helping the family (pg.13). On the other hand, he is always there for his family. On pages 7-14, Arnold is telling his feelings about being poor and how he is coping with it. He is talking about the bad things about being poor is, one if the biggest problems are being hungry and only getting sleep for dinner. One more problem is not being able to pay medical …show more content…

Throughout this novel, Arnold has been given the challenge of finding out who he is as a person and what his future will entail. On page 40, he is given an idea from one of his teachers about changing his future and opportunities. Arnold takes in all the information that his teacher has given him and used it. On page 46, he shares this idea with his parents. He tells them he wants better opportunities and a better future, for hope. His parents accept his wishes and let him go to an all white school outside of the reservation, Reardan high school. Before this, he was stuck in the cycle of poverty and helplessness. Until he had the courage to change it by going to Reardan. Ultimately Arnold was able to change is future and opening up a better

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